This history of Japan focuses on the people, power plays and betrayals - and the occasional stuff-up
"How did it come to this?" - This must have been the question the Christian missionaries asked thems
To Christian missionaries, Japan was a most attractive prospect. Literate, cultured and rich - the J
With the destruction of the Toyotomi at Osaka in 1615, the Tokugawa clan were unrivalled in their do
The Siege of Osaka Castle in the winter of 1614-15 and the final Battle for Osaka Castle in the summ
Tokugawa Ieyasu had won the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600 and set up organising Japan under his clan’
And the winner is of the Size-L Oda Nobunaga t-shirt - complete with his slogan “Tenka Fubu” (The Re
I went to Japan with 25 students and 2 other teachers. In this podcast I’ll tell you where we went
With Hideyoshi’s body barely cold, the plotting and scheming began in earnest. This was the complet
My mother says that the cemetery is full of people who thought they were indispensable - but in Hide
In 1592 and 1598 Hideyoshi pointed the enormous Japanese capacity for warfare at the task of conquer
Hideyoshi, in spite of being a warlord, transitioned Japan from a state of war to a state of peace.
The rise of Hideyoshi from sandal bearer to dictator of Japan was phenomenal. After hundreds of year
If murdering Nobunaga was Phase One of a long thought-out and well-considered plan for the take-over
Between 1575 and 1582 Oda Nobunaga was sorely tested by the most powerful opponents to his dominatio
In 1570 Oda Nobunaga faced a dangerous combination of rival daimyo and religious fanaticism. He dec
Oda Nobunaga took Kyoto in the name of the Shogun and the Emperor in 1568. By 1570 the Shogun knew
Oda Nobunaga had the luck, the allies, the staff, the location, the armies and the validation to mak
In this episode we introduce one of Japan’s three Great Unifiers. His rise to power was certainly n
The Portuguese bumped into Japan in 1543 and brought with them guns and god. In this podcast we wil
War in medieval Japan was a colourful bonanza - bravery, cowardice and accounting!
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